quality improvement

UChicago Medicine collaborates with Google to use machine learning for better health care

May 17, 2017

UChicago Medicine and Google are building predictive models that could prevent unplanned hospital readmissions, avoid costly complications, and save lives. [Read More]

How tracking stats like a baseball manager can improve CPR success rates in the hospital

August 7, 2014

In a nationwide survey of hospitals, Dana Edelson, MD, found big differences in how standard CPR practices are monitored for improvement. [Read More]

Inaugural Winners in the University of Chicago Medicine Innovations Grant Program

June 3, 2014

The first two awards under the University of Chicago Medicine's new $100,000 UCM Innovations Grant Program were presented at May's 9th Annual Quality and Safety Symposium. [Read More]

David Meltzer Wins Excellence In Mentoring Award

May 29, 2014

Meltzer, associate professor of medicine and chief, Section of Hospital Medicine, has received the 2014 John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentoring Award by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. [Read More]

Nurses Help Investigate Alternatives To X-Ray Verification Of Feeding Tubes In Pediatrics

April 7, 2014

Nurses at Comer Children's Hospital are helping find a better way to make sure feeding tubes are inserted properly without using x-rays. [Read More]

Insult to Injury: How a Common Practice to Prevent Pneumonia in Patients on Ventilation May Not Be Helping

March 26, 2014

A common antiseptic used to prevent pneumonia in patients on mechanical ventilation has no benefit for objective patient outcomes. [Read More]

No Senioritis Here: Pritzker Senior Scientific Session 2012

May 22, 2012

By Rob Mitchum As the weather warms and the flowers bloom in Chicago, it’s a sign that convocation and various other end-of-the-year events are approaching. One [Read More]

Medical Ethics Summer School

August 9, 2011

It has been a couple months since the end of the spring quarter, and the with it the end of many of the Medical Center’s weekly lecture series. But a recent batch of [Read More]

Insurance Against Health Disparities

April 21, 2011

There are many different stakeholders in fixing the runaway costs of the U.S. health care system, including patients, doctors, hospitals, and the federal government. Another [Read More]